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• General Dynamics Receives $32 Million HYDRA-70 Rocket Order General Dynamics 03 Apr 2000 -- General Dynamics Armament Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), has been awarded a $31.9 million order for the production of HYDRA-70 rockets, motors and warheads for the U.S. Navy, Air Force, Army, and foreign military users.
• Latest Flight Of Arleigh Burke-Class Destroyers Detect, Engage Simulated Threat In First Tests Of Newly Upgraded Weapon System Lockheed Martin 03 Apr 2000 -- Two U.S. Navy Aegis-equipped destroyers this past week successfully detected and engaged 'hostile' drone targets, verifying the performance of the ships' upgraded Aegis weapon system - designated Baseline 6 Phase 1 by the U.S. Navy and the system's manufacturer, Lockheed Martin Naval Electronics & Surveillance Systems-Moorestown.

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• PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT United Nations 03 Apr 2000
• TURKEY / RIGHTS Voice of America 03 April 2000 -- Turkey's constitutional court is deciding whether to ban the country's largest pro-Kurdish party the People's Democracy Party, known as Hadep.
• TURKEY / KURDS Voice of America 03 April 2000 -- Turkish troops are pushing ahead with their annual spring offensive against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq.
• RUSSIA / CHECHNYA Voice of America 03 April 2000 -- The U-N Human Rights Chief is meeting with Russian authorities in Moscow to urge an investigation into possible human-rights abuse in Chechnya.
• CHECHNYA. THE WHITE BOOK [Russian Information Centre and RIA Novosti, 03 April 2000] Chechnya gained de facto independence for several years, but it was not ready for it. It failed to take hold of its freedom, protect the rights of its citizens, or restore the economy. In a word, it failed to steer the developments into the right direction. Chechens could not come to an agreement with Russians or with each other.
• U-S / BOSNIA ARREST Voice of America 03 April 2000 -- U-S officials have welcomed the arrest of a former top Bosnian Serb leader on war crimes charges, saying his apprehension should cause sleepless nights for wartime leader Rodavan Karadzic.
• BOSNIA / WAR CRIMES Voice of America 03 April 2000 -- NATO-led peacekeeping troops in Bosnia have handed war crimes prosecutors in The Hague their biggest catch to date.
• Few but mighty: U.S. troops in East Timor doing important work, Stars and Stripes, 03 April 2000 -- Their numbers are small, but the Americans deployed to the peacekeeping mission in East Timor are accomplishing a lot, the top U.S. military commander there says.
• SHARIA REACT / NORTHERN NIGERIA Voice of America 03 April 2000 -- The controversy over Islamic law continues in Nigeria. Sharia was never raised during nearly four-decades of rule by northern Muslim generals.
• COLOMBIA DEATH SQUADS SET SIGHTS ON PEACE Monday, April 03, 2000 -- Colombia's ultra-right death squads are demanding a role in peace talks between the government and Marxist rebels so they can confront their rivals on the political stage and seek amnesty after decades of murder.
• INCIDENTS IN ACEH Monday, April 03, 2000 -- The weekly Serambi (Banda Aceh) reported the following incidents in Aceh during the last week of March.
• ISRAEL / LEBANON / U-S Voice of America 03 April 2000 -- Defense Secretary William Cohen says he does not expect the United States will deploy any soldiers in southern Lebanon as part of an international peacekeeping force, after Israel withdraws from the area.
• U-N-CONGO Voice of America 03 April 2000 -- Congo-Kinshasa's ambassador to the United Nations has called for the immediate deployment of U-N military observers to his country.
• PRESS CONFERENCE BY DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO 3 April 2000 - The Permanent Representative of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the United Nations questioned the Security Council's sincerity about deploying peacekeeping troops in his country. André Mwamba Kapanga said that the delay in sending peacekeeping troops to his country was the first time that he had heard the United Nations invoke the need for a ceasefire before peacekeepers could be deployed. Peacekeeping troops had been sent to Kosovo, Bosnia and Croatia even as fighting was continuing.

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